I wrote something here on this day but then I accidentally refreshed an earlier copy of this page, which submitted the Edit This Page form for that day, and what that did was overwrite what I wrote on this day. Since I went to that page via the back button, and because I refreshed it afterwards, I couldn’t recover what I originally wrote here.

In retrospect, it’s probably a good thing that it was taken off???

Happy birthday to me
I just love getting ICQ birthday greetings from strangers.

Multigrain or Multi-insect??? it’s hard to tell sometimes.

There are so many things in and about the universe that you cannot even begin to imagine–that is, of course, until you begin to imagine anything at all. For, in actuality, there isn’t anything that is intrinsically obvious. Most things that can be percieved through the senses are regarded as “obvious”, but even if seeing is believeing, what you see isn’t necessarily what’s actually there. If you see a square you cannot be sure that you’re looking at a cube straight on. And if you see the cube, you cannot be sure that that’s all there is. What we can see (and touch and smell and taste and hear) is a miniscule piece of the big picture. Even after looking at something from all the angles (visually or mentally), there are still vantage points that you can never see from and so whatever information you’ve gathered is always incomplete.

I wish that what I’m attempting to express here could be easier for me to convey. One could argue that I’m using too sophisticated a vocabulary, particularly for a lay person, but the problem is that it’s my vocabulary that limits me from fully articulating what it is I’m trying to communicate. It’s frustrating.

I want everybody to see that the world we live in is nowhere nearly as limited as it might seem. That despite death and our lifelong imprisonment in our own skulls, there is so much that can be learned and experienced in such a relatively short time and with the small amount of data we recieve from our surroundings. Thinking “out of the box” just puts you into another box, but after a while you notice that these boxes make up the surface of a whole different sort of box. And it regresses infinitely.

Aside from temporal constraints on our lives, our imaginations also have their limits. But it doesn’t necessarily mean that we can’t forever explore the endless depths of what there is to know. That’s what technology is for. We can construct tools that have sensory abilities greater than ours, and have those tools filter it down so we can see something. What we get at our end may not contain the full richness of the original article, but we do still get an enlightening glimpse. And that’s usually all it takes to fuel the fires of our imagination.

So, when you do finally begin to comprehend what exists in the world unseen, keep in mind that you cannot finish comprehending it. It goes on forever, but we don’t. By then it doesn’t matter, though. What matters most is now, and the importance of everything else tapers off towards the distant reaches of space and time, in all directions—including past and future. Therefore, death—our own personal boundary of space and time–matters the least. As does our birth. We’re here, right now, so let’s all deal with it. Together.

I just learned that it’s never a good idea to put anything with a liquid crystal display inside a microwave and that, for some reason, plastic does indeed melt in a microwave. I had to get a new watch anyhow. Damned thing was only water resistant if there weren’t any open holes. Maybe a chronometer would have to be added to the list of things I plan to bionically enhance myself with, which includes a laser-pointer in my finger tip, an infra-red beam-emitting retina-diode in one eye and a photo-optical digital camera retinal chip in the other eye. And maybe a carbonating organ with a Coca-Cola -secreting gland under my tongue.

Do you think goats are sexy? I don’t.

Hmmm??? it seems as if the more that people pay me for my time, the more costly it is for me to have some time for myself! I think I’ve just touched upon some kind of time-wealth continuum??? yeah, something like V=jw2– where V is the total value of one’s life, j equals one’s level of contentment at rest (that is, while not making any money), and w is a constant representing the theoretical limit as to how much money anyone can possibly make in any given time span (I would say that Bill Gates is at around 0.4w, which would mean 40% of the possible limit). I might be onto something here??? Idunno??? needs to be worked on more, no doubt??? and in the end (or even now) it may be completely bullshit. We’ll see???

I just realized something??? not only are most people not very good at telling the truth (i.e., they’re too uncomfortable with being completely honest), but they’re not very good at lying, either! I personally believe that honesty is (almost) always the best policy, but that there are times when it’s better to utter a falsehood. There are obvious cases where lying can be considered to be the right thing to, like if a creepy stranger were to corner you, asking for your phone number or something and won’t take no for an answer, and no one is around to help you out of that situation. But most people lie because it’s more convenient than to explain oneself truthfully without being misinterpreted. The problem with that is the proverbial snowball or tangled web. The key to lying succesfully is to make sure that any claims or assumptions made at the time of lying are unverifiable afterwards, so you don’t have to constantly keep them under cover. So, even if making up a fib on the spot is still a bad idea, a lie that’s well-thought out ahead of time can be a lot better than spilling the beans. And if you can’t do that, then learn to always tell the truth.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

- Mark Twain

Yyyesss! I got my Burning Man ticket in the mail yesterday! I’m going, I’m going, I’m going! Now all I have to do is figure out how the hell I’m going to get to Nevada. I’m working on it. I will be there. I can hardly wait, though. I’m sure I’ll have a lot of near-sexual experiences to recount afterwards. This is so coool!

They should make digital rights management -protected sound files like shareware; you can download the song for free, and if you still want it after having a month to hear it, you buy it. Sort of like the headphone stations they have at music stores, but way better.

Hmmm??? looks like I owe Metallica $4!